Habenaria petalodes Lindl. 1835 SECTION Seticauda
Photos by © A. V. Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil. and His 'Orchids of the Restinga area of Bahia, Brazil', Website
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Drawing by © Hoehne
LATER
THROUGH EARLIER
Common Name The Petal-Like Habenaria
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina at elevations of sealevel to 1100 meters as a large to giant sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later summer and earlier fall on a terminal erect, 6 to 12" [15 to 30 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, 3 nerved, somewhat longer than the ovary floral bracts.
Separated by the simple, oblong-rectangular-spathulate or even subflabellate petals widest at the apex. The only other species in the section Seticauda with somewhat similar petals is H unellezii but it has ligulate to oblong-ligulate lip with obscure basal teeth on each side, prominently dilated apically. The apical portion is elliptic, rhombic to 3 lobulate, in H petalodes the lobules are uneaqual and acute." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms Habenella petalodes (Lindl.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006; Platantheroides petalodes (Lindl.) Szlach. 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 316 Lindley 1835
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910 as H petalodes var micrantha = H warszewiczii;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 9. Panama Schlechter 1922 = H warszewiczii;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing ok;
The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as H petalodes not = H floribunda;
AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing good;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing not = H floribunda;
Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988;
Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family Dressler 1993 drawing ok;
Richardiana 4: 108 Szlach 2004 as Platantheroides petalodes
Richardiana 6: 38 Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006 as Habenella petalodes
The Organ Mountain Range, its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 drawing/photo fide;
Orquidees du Bresil As Orquideas sa Serra do Castelo Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 photo/drawing fide;
Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 94 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Habenella petalodes drawing/photo
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